Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

- King, Florence

Best Quotes about Mistakes

An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

Battista, Orlando A.

Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

Churchill, Winston

The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

Walter Bagehot

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

Pearl Buck

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

If I had my life to live over... I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.

Nadine Stair

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

Waitley, Denis

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The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.

Jenkins, Josh

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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It is said that only a fool learns from his own mistakes, a wise man from the mistakes of others.

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An old error is always more popular than a new truth.

Proverb, German

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It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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There is a wheel on the affairs of men revolve and its mechanism is such that it prevents any man from being always fortunate.

Croesus

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Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Cullen Hightower

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I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.

Hugo, Victor

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It is necessary for you to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.

Rickover, Hyman G.

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A man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.

Covey, Stephen R.

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Jung, Carl

28.

So long as a person who has made mistakes... honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend his ways, we should welcome him and cure his sickness so that he can become a good comrade. We can never succeed if we just let ourselves go and lash at h

Zedong, Mao

29.

The best may slip, and even the most cautious fall; but he is more than human who errors not at all.

Pomfret

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When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don't, you only make matters worse.

Ward Cleaver

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Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties. Error is the contradiction of Truth. Error is a belief without understanding. Error is unreal because untrue. It is that which stemma to be and is not. If error were true, its truth would be error, and we should have a self-evident absurdity --namely, erroneous truth. Thus we should continue to lose the standard of Truth.

Eddy, Mary Baker

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I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.

Joel, Billy

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While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

Henry C. Link

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Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections.

Pareto, Vilfredo

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The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

Dali, Salvador

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The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake...

Boswell, Nelson

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More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.

Smith, Harold J.

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A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Einstein, Albert

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She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

Henry James

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Sophia Loren

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While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

Link, Henry C.

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When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Hugh White

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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

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A mistake at least proves that somebody stopped talking long enough to DO something.

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The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed, most successful men fail time and time again, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

Korda, Michael

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There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed

Gates, Bill